Founders Unfiltered

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Founders Unfiltered episodes

September 25, 2022 Ep 63: Building a Scientific Gaming Company Out of India
Founders Unfiltered Ep-63:
Brought to you by the Founders Unfiltered podcast by A Junior VC - Unscripted conversations with Indian founders about their story and the process of building a company. Hosted by Aviral and Mazin.

Join us as we talk to Trivikraman Thampy, the Co-Founder & CEO of Games24x7, about their story.

Vikram (Trivikraman) Thampy is an Aerospace Engineer turned economist turned amateur poker player turned gaming entrepreneur. He pursued his B.tech at IIT Bombay and received his PhD in Economics from New York University. Later, he founded Play Games 24x7 in 2008.

Founded by New York University-trained economists Bhavin Pandya and Trivikraman Thampy in 2006, Games24x7 is an India-headquartered online gaming company with a portfolio that spans skill games (RummyCircle and My11Circle) and casual games (Ultimate Games). Backed by marquee investors like Tiger Global and The Raine Group, the company specialises in using behavioural science, technology, and artificial intelligence to provide awesome gaming experiences across all its platforms. The diverse, talented, and passionate Games24x7 team is spread across three continents with offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru, New Delhi, Kiev, Philadelphia, and Miami.

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44 min
September 11, 2022 Ep 62: Building a Financial Data Company Out of India
Join us as we talk to Abhishek Goyal and Neha Singh, the Co-Founders of Tracxn about their story.

Neha Singh pursued her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in technology from IIT Bombay. Later, in 2014, she completed her MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. She also served as an Associate with the BCG Group and an Investment Analyst with Sequoia Capital.

Abhishek Goyal completed his Bachelors of Technology in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur. In the IIT JEE Exam, he received an All India Rank of 60. Later, he served as a software engineer for organisations including Amazon, Yahoo, Andale, and Resume Pro.

About Tracxn: Tracxn is one of the world’s largest platforms for tracking 1.4 million entities through 1,800 feeds categorised across industries, sectors, sub-sectors, geographies, affiliations, and networks globally. It is powered by a unique blend of technical prowess and human analysts that filters through billions of data points to create one of the most useful data intelligence platforms.

Tracxn has over 850 customer accounts worldwide, spread over 50 nations, and is backed by investors like Accel Partners and Sequoia. The Tracxn platform is also utilized by several governments, accelerators, incubators, and universities to track innovative businesses and industries. Tracxn has been featured in the Forbes Top 100 Global Analytics Startup List (2015), and Fortune 40 Under 40 (2018).

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36 min
August 28, 2022 Ep61: Democratizing Global Hiring ft. Multiplier
Founders Unfiltered Ep-61:
Brought to you by the Founders Unfiltered podcast by A Junior VC - Unscripted conversations with Indian founders about their story and the process of building a company. Hosted by Aviral and Mazin.

Join us as we talk to Sagar Khatri, the Co-Founder and CEO of Multiplier Technologies about their story.

Sagar Khatri is the Co-Founder and CEO of Multiplier. He is an Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay graduate. Later, he worked as an investment banker for Nomura and served as Hmlet's VP of Growth and Expansion. He oversaw the 40 million dollar Series B funding, expansion into Australia and Japan, and a joint venture with MEC in Japan.

About Multiplier Technologies:
Multiplier, a top global hiring platform, is simple for businesses to hire teams abroad. It enables businesses to handle employee benefits, tax payments, and employment contracts and comply with these requirements. It generates revenue through subscription-based business models. In March 2022, the company raised $60M in Series B fundraising.

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41 min
August 18, 2022 Ep60: Re imagining software for businesses ft. Appsmith
Founders Unfiltered Ep-60: Brought to you by the Founders Unfiltered podcast by A Junior VC - Unscripted conversations with Indian founders about their story and the process of building a company. Hosted by Aviral and Mazin.
Join us as we talk to Abhishek Nayak, the Co-Founder & CEO of APPSMITH about their story.
Abhishek Nayak is the co-founder and CEO of Appsmith. After earning his degree from BITS Pilani in 2010, he went on to co-found businesses like Gharpay, Wise Mobile Technology, and Bicycle AI. He also served as director of product for Ezetap Mobile Solutions.
About APPSMITH: It is the first open-source low-code tool that helps developers build dashboards and admin panels very quickly. It's a platform that helps businesses build any custom internal application within hours. The business was established in the middle of 2019, and its open-source software has been downloaded more than 5 million times by users at more than 1,000 businesses in more than 100 countries.
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55 min
August 07, 2022 AJVC Unfiltered 55: Can MilkyMist Milk India’s Dairy Revolution?
Last fortnight, MilkyMist announced it was looking to raise 800 Cr in financing, after reporting close to 1,000 Cr in revenue
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8 min
August 07, 2022 AJVC Unfiltered 56: Is Lending a Feature or Finance's Biggest Moneyspinner?
Last fortnight, the ED began investigating crypto exchanges in connection with instant lending apps, soon after, the RBI banned PPI instruments from loading via credit lines. In this week's episode of A Junior VC behind the scenes, talk about the history of lending in India which some day is as old as humans.
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14 min
July 31, 2022 Ep 59: Reimagining Content Consumption ft. Inshorts
Brought to you by the Founders Unfiltered podcast by A Junior VC - Unscripted conversations with Indian founders about their story and the process of building a company. Hosted by Aviral and Mazin.
Join us as we talk to Deepit Purkayastha, the Co-founder of Inshorts about their story.
Deepit is a computer science and engineering graduate from IIT Kharagpur, where he started building Inshorts in his final year of college along with his co-founders from IIT Delhi. He previously worked as an intern with Goldman Sachs during his college days.
About Inshorts: Read the latest news with Inshorts in less than 60 words related to business, sports, Bollywood and technology in India and worldwide in English and Hindi.
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52 min
July 17, 2022 Ep 58: Building For Bharat ft. Pocket FM
Founders Unfiltered Ep-58:

Brought to you by the Founders Unfiltered podcast by A Junior VC - Unscripted conversations with Indian founders about their story and the process of building a company. Hosted by Aviral and Mazin.

Join us as we talk to Rohan Nayak, the Co-Founder of Pocket FM about their story.

Rohan completed his high school at DPS, RK Puram in 2010 and graduated from IIT Kharagpur in 2014. He later worked for several companies, including Credit Suisse, Cube26, and Paytm. About Pocket FM: Pocket FM is a personalised vernacular audio streaming service, built with a vision to redefine the OTT space with an audio-first approach. It was launched in September, 2018. Pocket FM is a Series C stage company and has raised US $93.6 million in five rounds and is backed by some marquee investors like Lightspeed, Times Internet, Tanglin Venture Partners, Goodwater Capital, Naver and others.

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About the Hosts :

Aviral Bhatnagar is a VC at Venture Highway and is the Founder of A Junior VC. He started the A Junior VC Newsletter in 2018 after observing whitespace in conversations in the Indian Venture ecosystem. He completed his B. Tech from IIT Bombay and MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.

Mazin Biviji is a Product Owner at Agoda and a founding member of A Junior VC. He previously worked at Deloitte as a Senior Consultant. He completed his MSE and BSE from the University of Michigan and his MBA from INSEAD.

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44 min
July 10, 2022 AJVC Unfiltered 54: Can LEAD School Lead Indian Edtech with Its Long Game?
Last fortnight, LEAD reported explosive growth due to the unlocking of schools, hot on the heels of a unicorn fundraise earlier this year.

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20 min
July 03, 2022 Ep 57: Reimagining Credit Cards ft. One card
Founders Unfiltered Ep-57:

Brought to you by the Founders Unfiltered podcast by A Junior VC - Unscripted conversations with Indian founders about their story and the process of building a company. Hosted by Aviral and Mazin.

Join us as we talk to Anurag Sinha, the Co-founder, and CEO of One Card about their story.

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1 hr 15 min